even in the john podesta case.son said this is not a legitimate e-mail, but somehow it got transcribed this is not illegitimate. . the dnc took far too long for experts, both the fbi and the -- i don't know if i have the name right, but the private sector organization that came in and did analysis. it took too long, given the gravity of the situation, for that to get resolved. so i think in retrospect, yeah, the movement that phone call came in, the dnc -- the leadership at the dnc should have been alerted and they should have had people crawling all over that place figuring out what happened and how to plug the leaks. >> you mentioned adam schiff, the ranking democrat on your committee. he's said that the obama administration should have done more to counter russian interference. do you agree with that, should they? >> i absolutely agree with that. look, what the president said that there was some sort of collusion or that president obama did nothing is absolute nonsense. president obama mobilized the intelligence

even in the john podesta case. one person said this is not a legitimate e-mail, but somehow it got transcribed this is not illegitimate. the dnc, remember, this is in retrospect, they didn't know what was going on. it took far too long for experts, both the fbi and the -- i don't know if i have the name right, but the private sector organization that came in and did analysis. it took too long, given the gravity of the situation, for that to get resolved. so i think in retrospect, yeah, the movement that phone call came in, the dnc -- the leadership at the dnc should have been alerted, and they should have had people crawling all over that place figuring out what happened and how to plug the leaks. >> you mentioned adam schiff, the ranking democrat on your committee. he's said that the obama administration should have done more to counter russian interference. do you agree with that, should they? >> i absolutely agree with that. look, what the president said that there was some sort of collusion or that president ob

the lie is the tweet that came from roger stone in august of 2016 when he said john podesta was next in the barrel. two months later, wikileaks released podesta's e-mails. some raised connections between the two. roger stone maintained it was not about john podesta's e-mails and it was in reference to his business dealings. >> it was more than that one tweet. roger stone had a lot to say throughout the election about connections to wikileaks and jew assange. thanks so much. appreciate it. >>> let's talk with someone on the committee right now, democratic congressman mike quigley. it's great to see you. >> thank you. good morning. >> did you find the meeting with john podesta helpful? can you tell me anything you learned? >> unfortunately, i can't reference who has testified or will testify before the committee when it's in closed session. i did hear his public pronouncements about the president. and i found it enlightening and enjoyable that mr. stone wants to testify publically. i want to encourage him to talk about this as much as he can publically. there's no one here more than mr.

the news comes just one day after hillary clinton's former campaign chairman john podesta was grilledby the same committee. cnn's joe johns is live at the white house with more. what can you tell us? >> reporter: clarissa, the significance of this is that house investigators are digging down into one of the big mysteries of russian interference in the 2016 election. whether roger stone, a long-time ally and confidant of president trump was somehow forewarned that damaging information was about to come out about the hillary clinton campaign, including the e-mails of hillary clinton's campaign chairman, john podesta. roger stone, what he's saying is he's denying knowledge that this information was going to come out, even though he did have some online twitter contacts with lucifer 2.0, the hacker who claimed responsibility for hacking the democratic national committee e-mails. there's a statement from roger stone that says, i'm confident that podesta most likely repeated his lie that i knew in advance about the hacking of his e-mail and am anxious to rebut this falsehood. i'm still unha

we're back with former clinton campaign chair john podesta. we'll talk about that.nd cybermeddling in the united states election. but first, the latest on the various probes from our justice correspondent pamela brown. pamela. >> that's right, wolf, committees in both the house and senate are ramping up requests for the white house and their probes into russia's meddling in the u.s. election, seeking information about jared kushner's security clearance and whether any tapes exist of conversations between president trump and james comey. >> reporter: tonight, the investigation into the russian election meddling is ramping up as congressional entities expand their scrutiny. the senate finance committee is examining data from the treasury department to determine any potential ties between trump and russia. >> one of the areas that we've now received two batches of information from treasury. and we may make more requests we're just starting that review. >> reporter: commit chairman richard burr feels confident that the committee will be eventually be given actos is the

an hour later, wikileaks published its first batch of emails stolen from john podesta.o some, obama's determination to avoid politicizing the russia issue had the opposite effect. it meant he allowed politics to shape his administration's response to what some believe should have been treated as a national security threat. should the obama administration have done more in the wake of disclosures about russian meddling with the election directed by vladimir putin? republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002. you can reach us on twitter, @cspanwj. some responses we have gotten, of course they should have done more. as usual with him, he looks the other way. it is easier to ignore problems. -- no matter what obama or his administration did, it would have appeared to only be for the purpose of helping hillary. sheilarepublican line, is calling from oklahoma. what do you think? not do the reason he did more is because everybody thought hillary was going to win. there was no reason to do anything like that. i don't know how you could s

department allegedly helped hackers gain access to the e-mails of clinton campaign chairman john podesta is the news this morning well according to a new documentary on russia's alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election race anyway it's been aired in the last few hours by the american network c.n.n. kara was what she and i took a quick scooter it just now lots of drama there lots of dramatic soundbites lots of dramatic music but i didn't get to see it all after say you watch more of it was that smoking gun. well kevin this is a special report that i add to viewers just a few hours ago as you said and it was billed as the first comprehensive telling on television the talk of the twenty sixteen race with geography lessons for the american league and the pup. about more still to come now who wouldn't want to watch this it sounds like c.n.n. is finally going to lift the lid on all this unsubstantiated evidence unverified source it's been used to suit themselves almost exactly it's been using this to russia for almost a year now so there's going to be a lot of disappointed viewers

with the right mix of hybrid it, everything computes. >>> john podesta, chair of the hillary clintonet october 7th, 2016. >> early in the morning, the director of homeland security and the director of national intelligence released a statement that the russians were actively interfering in the election. later in the day, the "access hollywood" tape came out. >> i did [ bleep ], she was married. >> and, of course, everyone's attention turned to what donald trump had been saying to billy bush on that bus. >> you know, i'm automatically attracted to beautiful -- i just start kissing them. it's like a magnet. >> a break for the clinton campaign. that is, until just moments later. >> within minutes, i think 23 minutes later, the first of the e-mails was posted to wikileaks with a statement from julian assange that said that, you know, we have the contents of his e-mail system and we're going to release them all. of course, the campaign. >> that is, the entire contents of john podesta's private account, totaling more than 50,000 e-mails. once again, the source of the e-mail trove was wikil

come out about the hillary clinton campaign including the e-mails of clinton campaign chairman john podesta who also appeared in closed session before the committee just yesterday. roger stone, of course, denies that he had any fore knowledge. he did issue a statement which, among other things, referred to podesta's testimony which las not been made public. that statement says, i'm confident that podesta most likely repeated his lie that i knew in advance about the hacking of his e-mail, and i am anxious to rebut this falsehood. i'm still unhappy that my testimony will not be in public, but believe it's more important to resolve the question of russian collusion with the trump campaign which i believe was non-existent. after podesta's committee appearance, by the way, he did at least refer to the obama administration's handling of russia's interference and essentially refused to say there was anything wrong with it. chris and clarissa, back to you. >> let's bring in cnn political analyst david gregory, associate editor and columnist for realclearpolitics a.b. stoddard and and cnn reporter c

former clinton campaign chair, john podesta meeting with house intel committee.essman are coming to the camera. that is podesta. he is just walking away. he is leaving us. when he comes out, if we see him again, we'll take a comment. intel committee has switched their focus from the trump administration to the previous obama administration. what role, if any they played in trying to thwart an fbi investigation into hillary clinton. >>> we have more breaking news on the stock front. kb home releasing second-quarter earnings results following beat on earnings and revenue. home build are citing a 24% increase in revenue. 11% increase in deliveries for the beat. melissa: you are looking at a white house, where all republican senators, you will be in a second, there you go, they're talking to president trump about health care. we'll bring you details just as soon as we get any. david: this very disturbing story, the pentagon saying there is activity associated with chemical weapons in syria. white house is putting them on notice. former congressman pete hoekstra is wi

, leaked through wikileaks, writing to john podesta, she says let's put pressure on saudi arabia because they're supplying logistical and financial support to isis, the group we are in the middle east fighting against. saudi arabia supplying them. according to hillary clinton not indirectly but directly, who in their right mind would give money, arms, or share our technology with a country that has been supporting isis? who would do that? who would think that is a good idea? they will come here and say it is about iran as we have to combat iran, this will make the situation with iran worse. what you think iran thinks if saudi arabia gets weapons? they think to themselves if the saudis are getting more we need more. what do you think is real thinks you give the saudis get more we need more. never heard of an arms race? that is what this is. we are fueling an arms race in the middle east. every side wants more. we have to do this, we have to combat iran. how much the golf sheaf them, saudi arabia and all their allies bombing the hell out of yemen, do you know how their military spending co

to hacks in the first place by being down to john podesta of course every spawning to an e-mail from a hacking group requesting that he changes in mail passwords and him happily giving it away after an i.t. guy confirms that this team out was legitimity instead of a legitimate it was a typo that's the quote was our c.n.n. call the e-mail. as having helped the democratic party lose the two thousand and sixteen presidential race now also presented in this documentary is the so-called evidence presenting suggesting it was russia that was behind the hacks such as the hacks took place during moscow working hours the new hope people watching this will realize that moscow does share a time zone with many other countries. around yet also do hackers work nine to five . besides this let's take a look at this graph. but it's some of it surprisingly simple such as time stamps showing that the hackers were starting and finishing their work on moscow time for a good week for c.n.n. there was this. covert surveillance footage just a home of your own views on this where you think is a good or a bad

>> i don't have any questions for john podesta. this is, yet again, an effort by my republican colleagues to divert the investigation into areas that are not going to be necessarily helpful in determining whether or not the russians infiltrated into our election and whether or not trump campaign operatives were wittingly or unwittingly involved with russia in that infiltration. >> but you don't think it's important to find out exactly how the hack happened and to what extent the clinton campaign did or did not cooperate with efforts to try to -- that the fbi had to try to get in and help them out as dhs secretary, jay johnson said they had trouble doing? >> well, actually, jay johnson said that he was not privy early on to the hacking going on. it was much later in the process. i would say that that has some value, but it is not critical to the investigation, in my view. >> let's move to something else that is very critical on capitol hill and far beyond. the health care bill. republicans are trying to work through their version of

i do not know if the russians stick into john podesta e-mails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided. to support his claims. i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied the beat n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an ethical government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. i'm tom hartman i'll give you what the mainstream media can't go big picture. and when you question more find what you're looking for. dog. will go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. on. all. twenty four and every. years the golden years and. this is anothe

unnamed members hack to the dnc in the personal gmail accounts of clinton's campaign chairman john podestahaving deduces might be the best way to hurt her in the campaign. the emails they exposed found a cozy relationship with the media on the democratic party. they showed that the democratic primary premise was rigged. they exposed wall street script transcript that clinton wanted to keep secret. in fact, hillary explains that the emails the russians hacked were boring, and contain nothing worth note. to increase the potency of this scheme, the trump campaign ordered russia to manufacture something called fake news out of the emails and distribute them for their network of bogus news outlets, which by the way, they have. you probably didn't know that. now, researcher the as stanford have discovered that the fake news that hillary discovered was seen by nobody, but according to hitler, it was enough in the end to bamboozle the sad and confused voters of pennsylvania and wisconsin into mistakenly boarding for donald trump. by the way, she feels sorry for them. according to hillary, the trum

we want the talk to you about what you heard from john podesta. him saying the last administration did the best they could with deciding what information to release about russia when they knew it. your reaction. >> that's one of the president's attorney first. here is what you've got. president obama knows all this purported activity is going on and does nothing about it. zero. he does nothing about it because he thinks hillary clinton will be the president of the united states. surprise, the president is now donald trump. so now we have a special counsel investigating the so-called russian probe and russian hijacking of the election. the russian hacking into the election when we know the administration previously had the information and did nothing about it. here is my question that i would ask john podesta and anybody else. why do we have a special counsel dealing with the russia hacking when they had that evidence and did nothing, why don't we have a special counsel reviewing why president obama did nothing after he assured the american people

after this meeting today behind closed doors, john podesta was asked about the obama administration'sponse to the russia attacks and whether the obama administration did enough. this is what he did. >> i think that the president and the entire administration were dealing with an unprecedented incidents of the weaponization of russian cyber activity and they were trying to do the best they could on behalf of the american people. >> despite the testimony today, you are seeing more partisan infighting on that house intelligence committee. some democrats critical of the call by republicans. podesta to come before the committee. jackie spear, one of the members on this committee, democrats saying this is an effort to divert attention away from the central issues of the russia collusion issues, something republicans of course reject. right now, erin, these witnesses coming behind closed doors as this investigation takes shape. >> thank you. and of course behind closed doors could be crucial here in terms of what happened. good to have both of you with us. your next, john. roger stone, this

her two top advisers, john podesta and robbie did not care for each other so much.e detail this in the book. there's one passage we haveey aa where they are at a senior retreat for senior members of the campaign and are basicallyth telling each other how they feel and using words like passive-aggressive. hillary clinton stopped talking to some of her top advisers, robbie during the primary.these these are problems swept under the rug and not fully address. she wanted people to think it was a drama free campaign based on the headlines that came out on 2008 that there is infighting.aps. they did a good job keeping it under wraps. there is an image and likability problem. people didn't trust her. these are all factors. we talked people know we talked to someone tonight who said i supported her but unwillingly. o that's book for a lot of people. i think a lot of people acknowledge that.k a lo >> i have a competitor for one of the best quotes. one of her top aides said i would have had a reason for running i would not have run. the argument was even her aides did not kno

i understand john podesta is going before the senate intel for a closed door meeting, not testimony. we have more information and it's all against the back drop of the stunning reporting we'll do later in the show about russia. what are you hearing from white house sources about the bigger question into their team and/or satellite associates as trump likes to call them and the broader investigation into russia? >> well, listen, this is an investigation that is a sprawling investigation. and i think we're starting to see and we will see in the next week with the sort of variety of people they're talking to both publicly and privately how deep it goes. the problem for the white house is that they really can't control any of this. and they don't actually have a great channel of communication to figure out where things are going. how to respond, to get in front of any of this. and so what you have instead is the president going out, he had this interview today which i assume was timed so that he could give an explanation for this whole tapes fiasco where he suggested there were tapes and

t john podesta met with members from the house intelligence committee.him for the documentary. how might he help shed light on this hack that he fell victim to? >> you know, i think one of the big take-aways is just how easy it was in retrospect. a spear phishing e-mail looks like something from e-mail. and even that mistake that his cyber team meant to say don't click on it, a typo, auto correct, who knows how it happened, and he says it comes across as legitimate. they click on it. that gives the russians access to 50,000 of his e-mails, his entire private e-mail account for years and it was those e-mails that, as we saw at the campaign as the election got closer that were released really on a daily basis and had an enormous effect certainly on how the campaign was covered and from podesta's point of view, had an effect on the outcome. >> what do you think some of the questions that members of the house intelligence committee asked today of podestpodesta? >> i think it was what were the missed signals? what should have been done earlier to stop this fr

just a reminder here, john podesta's e-mails were hacked and released by wikileaks. u.s. indicates that russia was behind that. but podesta stopped short of actually criticizing president obama's response. here he was after speaking to the house intelligence committee. >> i think they were -- the president and the entire administration were dealing with an unprecedented incidence of the weaponization of the fruits of russian cyber activity, and i think they were trying to make the best judgments they could on behalf of the american people. >> let's go to kaitlan collins, our cnn white house reporter. did we learn anything about what podesta actually said to the committee. >> reporter: john podesta testified before the house intelligence committee yesterday. we don't know a ton about what he said besides what he has told us because it was a closed session. as you recall, the leak of these e-mails was a pivotal moment of the election, because it really revealed the inner workings on hillary clinton's campaign. we found out about their strategies on how to defeat bernie sand

more from washington now john podesta, one of the chief victims of russian hacking. pressed on why the obama white house did not do more to expose the kremlin before the election. >> i think they were, the president and the entire administration were dealing with an unprecedented incidence of the weaponization of, fruits of russian cyber activity, and i think they were trying to make the best judgments they could on behalf of the american people. >> podesta testified before the house intelligence committee yesterday, and joining me now is from washington, california congressman adam schiff. thank you for being with us. first of all he will's talk about john podesta's testimony. what have you learned so far? >> well i can't go into the particulars. i think it was valuable for him to come and testify before our committee. we're looking at a number of things obviously we're looking at the issue most people are focused on in terms of whether there was any coordination between the trump campaign and the russians, but we're also looking at issues about u.s. government resp

our own maria bartiromo calling out john podesta today. they have russian ties also. so did you. you are not given 75,000 shares. i didn't have any stock in any russian company. go back and get your facts straight. we know that you will 75,000 shares. it's not russian company. it's backed by the kremlin. you are given 75,000 shares. that is not true. how may shares were you given. i do have any shares in any russian company. i was on the board of an american company that did business here here and only here that the russian company have a small investment in that company we can go round and round a tree. it's been widely reported it at that company has been backed by the kremlin. that you have to disclose. you can keep leveling of this charge it is not true. they do not give me anything. what a fight. maria was getting the double standard. let's go through the facts. >> he sat on the board of an american company. i got russian funding. it was taken by the kremlin. the kremlin didn't give them any thing. they got 75,000 shares. and it looks like he gave it to his daugh

>> i think it was valuable to bring john podesta in.e what the russians did and whether the russians had the help of any u.s. persons, but also what was the u.s. government response? how did they respond, how did the u.s. government, the fbi, the department of homeland security respond when we learned the russians were in our computers? how did they respond when john podesta learned that his emails had been hacked? this was obviously went to the core of our democratic process, and we need to learn because as james comey said, the russians will be back or more accurately in my view, the russians have never left. so i think his testimony was helpful, was important. we should not be afraid to find out the answers to any of these questions, and this is i think a core area of our interest. in terms of mr. stone, obviously there's been a lot said in the public sphere. i don't want to get into too much detail about it, but you know, he has said at various times that he was in contact with julian assange, that he had direct twitter communicatio

the house intelligence committee planning to interview former hillary clinton campaign manager john podesta next week as part of its investigation into russian meddling. emails leaked from podesta's hacked account caused major headaches for the clinton camp in the heat of the 2016 election. >>> minority leader nancy pelosi brushing off grumbling from within her own party declaring she has broad support among house democrats. some of those colleagues were meeting behind closed doors to discuss forcing her out. new york congresswoman kathleen rice, who went public calling for pelosi's ouster this week, hosted a dozen democrats to strategize. a defiant pelosi making it clear she's not going anywhere. >> i think i'm worth the trouble quite frankly. i like the fray -- i'm not disrespectful of members' views. i respect any views that members have. my decision on how long i stay is not up to them. >> congresswoman rice admitting to cnn part of the problem is no one has emerged as an alternative to pelosi. criticism of the democratic leader has mounted as democrats have lost special elections in th

if you've ever read the john podesta e-mails, they are anadine to boredom. they dumped them and began to weaponize them and began to have some of their allies within the internet world like infowars, take out pieces and say the most outrageous outlandish absurd lies you can imagine. so they had to be ready for that and they had to have a plan for that and they had to be given the go ahead, okay, this could be the end of the trump campaign, dump it now. then, let's do everything we can to weaponize it. who do you think directed it? we're getting more information about all of the contacts between trump campaign officials and trump associates with russians before, during and after the election. so i hope that we'll get enough information to be able to answer that question. >> meaning trump? >> yes. meaning trump. i think it's pretty hard not to. leaning trump. >> i think the marriage of the domestic fake news operations, the domestic rnc republican allied data combined with the very effective capabilities that the russians brought -- >> leaning trump. leaning t

dumped the john podesta emails, my email account was turned into the biggest scandal since lord knowshen. they covered it like it wasai pearl harbor. men paid for the speeches they made, i got paid for the speeches i made. it was used and i thought it was unfairly used, i have my complaints about former director comey. >> tucker: think about the wrath you have heard against the president. he's narcissistic, he won't accept information he disagrees with, he betrays friends and allies for his own personal gain, based on what you just saw and her behavior the last few weeks, do any of these criticisms not apply to hillary clinton? she can't accept explanations for her defeat, she's accusing the trump campaign affording specific hacking efforts to the minute and is so narcissistic, the only person she can't blame for her defeat is herself. even her biggest handicaps were self-inflicted. charles krauthammer is a writer and columnist who joins us now. it does sound like what people make of trump. >> i know i'm in a minority wit. conservatives, but i feel sorry for her. it could be because i

instead she sent john podesta out to send her sobbing fans home.even months later, clinton showed up what does she have to say? she suggested she was ready to take responsibility for losing. >> the really painful experiences honestly understanding what i didn't do well, or what i didn't do well enough, or what our shortcomings were, where we missed an opportunity where we didn't do in retrospect what might've worked better. >> tucker: but then, no, she went right back to the russian conspiracy. >> obviously i'm particularly concerned about the role that russia played about the very serious interference that we know, they are responsible for in our most fundamental democratic act. if you can't be all right with the idea that the foreign adversary was try to influence the election. the >> tucker: it wasn't secret macedonian agents who derailed her god-given presidency, it was a sexism paired >> in my book, i take on the issues of sexism and misogyny. , it may be uncomfortable for some people to read how i experienced it, what i believe about it, but

john podesta's whose hacked personal e-mails were at the focal point of the election.e two-hour interview, podesta was tight-lipped on what he told the panel on what he knew about russian hacking, take a listen. >> obviously investigating russia's attempt to influence the 2016 election. they asked me to come forward to give, to the best of my knowledge, what i knew about that. and i was happy to cooperate with the committee. in their investigation. of russian interference with the democratic process in the united states. the chairman asked me to respect the fact that i would -- that the specific questions and answers would stay in the room. and not come out here to the cameras. >> meanwhile, the lawyer for the longtime associate of president trump roger stone has announced his client will appear before the house intel committee late next month. his lawyer said that stone had asked for a public hearing to address his communications last we're with wikileaks, the group that published podesta's e-mails. in a statement he wrote, roger looks forward to using his time in fro

i do not know if the russian state hack into john podesta emails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided credible to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied the deep n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo chamber for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. ruth. sixty seven close in of in didn't will produce in this ward opened all the rumors border who did better docs a good real variables real of all the water would be going through the. many years into seeing giant she has been trying to raise awareness of

john podesta's testimony is not firm for next week but may be by the end of today. we'll update you as we learn more about that. russian backed hackers were behind the theft of the podesta e-mails and strategically leaked. the e-mails damaged candidate clinton. robert mueller was on capitol hill meeting with the house and senate intelligence committees and leaders of the senate judiciary committee to ensure that the overlapping investigations into russian interference do not conflict. the house intelligence committee has set a deadline today. they documented the private conversations with the president, shep. >> shepard: what are we learning about the closed-door testimony from the nation's intelligence chief? >> the director of national intelligence, dan coats, testified behind closed doors in front of the same committee. the senior republican on the committee along with the ranking democrat said there would be no selective leaks. within hours, there was an nbc report. >> i can't tell you who it is, but i can tell you this. you're going to have a chilling effect on

. >>> the breaking news tonight follows former clinton campaign chair john podesta.ening, roger stone says he will be speak being with the committee to rebut podesta. he says i have agreed to testify july 24th. it is likely podesta continued his lie that i knew about this e-mail. i'm so unhappy that my testimony will not be in the public but believe it is more important to resolve the question of russian collusion with the trump campaign. back now with david gergen and david axelrod and robby mook. how big a problem is roger stone for the trump administration when it comes to this investigation? because he says, look, he can explain it all and there was nothing there? >> i think he could be in very deep trouble. if any of the statements, and, as you said multiple times, he claimed the contact through julian assange, he predicted that john podesta would be in the barrel way back in august. if those statements are true, if what he was saying at that time is true, he's in very big trouble and the trump campaign is in very big trouble. so i'm frankly surprised that he is

the tweet was something like, john podesta better look out. that indicates some foreknowledge that is deeply troubling and does certainly seem to give -- lend some credence to what secretary clinton there is saying, which is it's difficult to imagine that the russians could have been this effective without at least some help. >> i should say roger stone says that he didn't have any foreknowledge although there's new reporting from the new yorker today saying stone has been talking to the president even after comey's firing, which some people blamed on stone. so that's sort of to flesh out the record there. josh earnest, thanks for your time. >> thank you, chris. >> let's bring in rebecca ingber and paul butler, former federal prosecutor of the department of justice. paul, let me talk to you first. there's so much anticipation for comey and there's a question about what will he be able to say or not say? i guess from a legal perspective, what's your anticipation of the breadth of what you would imagine he can talk about? >> chris, it could be r

he appeared to predict john podesta would be targeted weeks before wick pkileaks posted his hacked any collusion with russia. >>> sean spicer says if mr. assad conduct the another mass murder attack using chemical weapons, he and his military will pay a heavy price. nikki haley says that was meant for a wider audience. >> the goal at this point is not just to send assad a message but to send russia and iran a message, that if this happens again, we are putting you on notice. >> a new video shows basheer al-assad climbing into a cockpit of a plane. a russian official calls the white house's statement a provocation. >>> dozens are recovering from injuries after a subway train went offer the tracks toward the end of the morning rush hour in upper manhattan. in the dark tunnels with smoke from a fire that was ignited by sparks from the derailment. the transit authority says the cause appears to be an extra piece of rail on the tracks. >> the train bucked forward, bucked backward, and in the process of doing that, two of the cars derailed. they scraped the side of the wall. >> the derailmen

clinton's campaign chairman john podesta met with investigators behind closed doors yesterday. wikileaks released thousands of podesta's private emails during the campaign. investigators say the emails that were released were meant to hurt clinton's campaign. after his meeting, podesta defended the way the obama white administartion dealt with the hacking. < john podesta / hillary clinton campaign chairman"the president and his entire administration were dealing with an unprecedented incidence of the weaponization of the fruits of russian cyberactivity and i think they were trying to make the best judgments they could on behalf of the american people." >( darya ) next month, long-time trump associate roger stone will testify in front of members of congress. stone has come out defending the trump administration saying there was no collusion between the president and the russians. ( mark ) still ahead on the kron four morning news... wildfires continue to spread across california. the progress firefighters made overnight trying to contain these fires. and after the break... find

let's talk about john podesta. he did speak to cameras right after he finished his testimony on capitol hill. one of the things he did was make it clear that he was not blaming the obama administration for not handling the interference of russia properly. listen. >> i think the president and the entire administration were dealing with an unprecedented incident of the weaponization of the fruits of russian cyber activity. and i think they were trying to make the best judgments they could on behalf of the american people. >> so there's going to be plenty for the house intelligence committee to talk to roger stone about when he gets there at the end of july. >> joe johns at the white house, thank you very much. >>> the united states has ships and aircraft in place if the syrian regime under assad decides to conduct another chemical attack. >> happening now, the ambassador to the united nations nikki haley is testifying on capitol hill. what will she say about the new u.s. pros tosture? >>> three chicago officers facin

john podesta testifies before the house intelligence committee about his e-mail hack about the man some alleged colluded with the hack. >> i'm very anxious to appear before the house intelligence committees. >>> plus under fire. critics slamming president trump for this moment with a female reporter which is now going viral. >> she has a nice smile on her face so i bet she treats you well. >> the legendary phil donahue is here to way in on all of it. >>> we'll begin this morning with resetting the repeal and the stunning decision by the senate republican leadership to postpone a vote on their highly controversial health care bill. there are a lot of questions this morning. so we are bringing in the best team of reporters and analysts in the business. here to explain where we go from here taking you to capitol hill where casey hunt is standing by. you spoke to senate majority leader mcconnell about this surprising announcement, surprising because he couldn't get the votes. let's listen. >> mr. leader, is your effort to repeal obamacare dead? >> no, no. we're continuing to talk about it.

serving time in the barrel, apparently predicting the leak of john podesta's e-mail. there are important questions he needs to answer. >> susan rice, president obama's former national security adviser agreed to testify before your committee next month. what do you want to ask her? >> you know, susan rice is primarily of interest to people. i'm telling what they have said publicly, interest of people focussed on the issue of unmasking. did susan rice -- >> is she of interest to you? >> it's not clear to me what she may or may not know. i will say this about unmasking. it is a word that sounds ominous. it's something that happens every single day on the part of senior administration officials when they need to look at a masked u.s. person's name to understand the intelligence they are looking at. of course, it's something we take seriously here. you are, in fact, exposing a u.s. person's name to a senior official. as a result, that is surrounded by lawyers, audited by inspector generals. there are those making allegations if susan rice may have unmasked something. maybe

next week, clinton campaign chairman john podesta will testify on capitol hill. joining us now is robby mook, cnn's newest political commentator. . robby, welcome to cnn. >> thank you. >> when you see looking back on it, do you blame the obama administration for how they handled this? because clearly they seemed like hillary clinton they thought was going to win and also felt like they didn't want to be seen as influencing the election. >> i think adam hit the nail on the head in the interview you showed earlier. this was incredibly complex. i think a lot of people thought hillary clinton was going to win. i think a lot of people decided not to turn out and vote or some people voted third party who would have not if they thought donald trump was going to win. but the whole system didn't work here. i think between national security, law enforcement, the administration, even the campaign, i think even the news media, i don't think any of us knew how to handle this situation. it's really important that we understand what happened, and look back. but i think we need

former clinton campaign chair john podesta answered questions from the house intelligence committee lateday behind closed doors. trump associate roger stone has agreed to do the same next month. he says to rebut podesta about whether stone knew in advance about the hacking of his e-mail. he says he'd prefer that his testimony would be in public. the goal of that investigation, the oathers a others going on, getting to the bottom of russia's interference in the election. we don't know how it's all going to end, of course, the pieces we do have make for a fascinating cnn special report. jim sciutto hosts "the russian connection: inside the attack on democracy." that's coming up next on cnn. thanks very much for watching "360." see you again tomorrow night. that special report starts right now. >>> the following is a cnn special report. >> the nation's bitter adversary. >> they're coming after america. >> dangerous and deceptive. >> a reasonably realistic e-mail. >> he meant to say illegitimate. he said it was legitimate. the rest is history. >> their weapons, insidious and unsuspecting. >>

they were looking at john podesta's e-mails.n't saying america, stop what you ear doing. this is russia directed to create chaos here. don't pay attention to it. >> well, to be clear as it relates to the podesta e-mails in the first week in october, there was a statement that was worked on by the obama administration that was signed by all of the intelligence agencies of the u.s. government indicating that russia was involved in intervening and trying to meddle in our election process. so that was something that was widely known and actively discussed for a month before the election. so there's no mystery about what exactly was going on here, but as it relates to nick's point, look, nick, we did know that the russians were russians were scanning the websites and were trying to find vulnerabilitys in the election systems of local and state jurisdictions responsible for administering these elections. we absolutely did know that. what we chose to do is to work behind the scenes to make sure that russia did not succeed in interferin

white house chiefs of staff and a card for george bush 43, jack watson for president carter and john podesta for president clinton they join author the author of the gate keepers how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency. >> first is the care and feeding of the president and that's a logistical challenge, it is also paying attention to the state of mind of the president and the emotional roller coaster that the president might be on. and that is a very large -- that often people don't pay attention to but it is all consume fog are achieve of staff and then you have the policy debate, the chief of staff manages the poicy debate, not necessarily the policy, but the process so that there are fewer unintended consequences to the policy. which means you have to have lots of views and people speak truth to power. >> rose: we conclude with leah dickerman, she the a curator of the new exhibit at the museum of modern art. robert rauschenberg among friends. >> we wanted to suggest that through rauschenberg's career that you could celebrate creativity and conversation, of course, he c

after tweeting that john podesta, hillary clinton's 2016 campaign chair, would have his time in the barrelmails were leaked by wikileaks and julian assange. stone told a reporter, i do have a back channel communication with assange because we have a good mutual friend. still, stone denied having any direct communications with assange and denied leaking podesta's e-mails. now intel officials want to know if roger stone had advanced warning of the e-mails leak and perhaps the russian hack during the 2016 campaign. the man whose motto is admit nothing, deny everything launched counterattack now back in the spotlight again. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> joining me now is senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. a fascinating piece for "the new yorker." jeff, roger stone is a fascinating character. as you were saying, you profiled him for the new yorker. he sort of thrives in a murkiness between fact and fiction. >> you know, that's exactly right, anderson. he is an unusual figure in that in my experience he embellishes the bad things he's done. tries to make himself look worse rather than better w